DUST 514

Update: Do You Play EVE Online? We're Giving Away 15 Billion ISK!

Update: The winner has been chosen! By random number generation, with bonus points for sheer awesomeness, BeauEnnui is walking away with 15 billion ISK! Congratulations, Beau, don't spend it all in one place.

FPS General is giving away a massive amount of in-game currency for all of you EVE Online fans - wait, EVE Online? Isn't this a shooter blog...didn't I click...

Okay, before you get too worried about why we're talking about an MMO on an FPS blog, here's the deal; FPS General is giving away an absolute smorgasbord of EVE Online currency - known as Interstellar Kredits or, simply, ISK. Now, you know us. When we host giveaways, we host giveaways. That's why we're giving away 15,000,000,000 ISK. That's 15 billion in-game dollars. Not million, but billion. Three extra 0's on the end there.

If you haven't played EVE Online, winning 15 billion ISK would be a great way to get yourself started. This is easily one of the most popular and durable MMO's, allowing players to build their own massive empire in space, buying ships and making the choice to subjugate everyone you come in contact with or to set up strategic alliances with established corporations. EVE Online is a massive offering and even more so when you remember that it has a sister game; DUST 514, the PlayStation 3-exclusive first-person shooter. DUST and EVE players can work together, with both games being hosted on the same core servers, allowing some really fascinating interaction across the games. EVE players can issue contracts to DUST 514 soldiers and will actually be responsible for coordinating air strikes (that will take place in DUST 514) to help the DUST mercenary get their job done.

For the EVE player, 15 billion ISK will go a long way towards building your empire and getting yourself in a position where you can begin to offer DUST 514 players various contracts, assigning them missions to help further your galactic power.

If I wasn't a DJ, I'd also make sure my account was paid up for a couple of months in advance, and then probably go blow the lot on new and shiny things... Faction ships, Deadspace items... or simply follow one of EVE Online's basic rules of life :

Thats about the most zeroes I've seen in ISK eversince I started playing EVE in 2007.

How I would spend it? 5-7 bill to the corporation I'm in, just because it's a great corp in wich everyone stands by each other and 5 Bill in investments, like building a tech2/tech3 building empire (invention/manufacturing) and the rest would give me no worries about losing ships in combat or buy a PLEX in times of need ^^

i'm skooma steve.. and i've been playing eve for about 5 years... i've been getting new friends into it constantly. I've been very active in the eve community and usually end up as a recruiter for whatever corp/alliance i fly with.. i'd really really really love to use this isk to help fund some of our corp ventures and buy stuff for the newer players in our corp who aren't quite prepared for the harsh enviroment of wormhole space. I really hope you'll consider me to win this contest

If there is one thing that makes eve universe unique among MMOs, it is that when a player, corp, or alliance loses in pvp it is a real loss. It takes months to recover from a crushing defeat; often recovery fails. I would invest the money in teaching this core eve concept to the Dust 514 members. I want to dine on their sweet, salty tears of defeat. Don't worry, I will make sure they know that their tears are FPS General funded. :)

First off half is for a shiny new Jump Freighter. An alliance i am helping is making a move to low sec, and the logistics is killing them. The current cost is such that its hard to get that much together at one time. Second half is to help my friends. With the collapse of a lot of the null sec corps and alliances, many people that i know had to leave their ships and modules behind and flee to high sec. That would allow us to recover and start going again till the tide turns and we can return to null. As a side note it would be great fun to spend 16b isk, and hand out faction battleships, be like Christmas all over again. Off to the forums!